{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G5503",
  "lemma": "χήρα",
  "transliteration": "chḗra",
  "definition": "a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively",
  "kjv": "widow",
  "occurrences": 94,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G5490",
      "lemma": "χάσμα",
      "transliteration": "chásma",
      "meaning": "a \"chasm\" or vacancy",
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    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Mark 12:40",
      "text": "those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/12?v=40"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 12:42",
      "text": "A poor widow came and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/12?v=42"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 12:43",
      "text": "He called his disciples to himself and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/12?v=43"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 2:37",
      "text": "and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/2?v=37"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 4:25",
      "text": "But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/4?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 4:26",
      "text": "Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/4?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 7:12",
      "text": "Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/7?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 18:3",
      "text": "A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/18?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 18:5",
      "text": "yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/18?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 20:47",
      "text": "who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/20?v=47"
    }
  ],
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